Vocabulary Biome: A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests.
DVD player. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. These predictions were woefully optimistic.
A DVD stores its audio and video in MPEG-2 format. A DVD player or a computer equipped with a DVD drive is required to play DVDs. A DVD holds significantly more data than a CD (including a VCD). A two hour movie that requires 2 VCDs can be recorded only on one DVD.